It’s fine, let’s import 50,000 from Indonesia and the Philippines… who’ll accept 20 percent reduction to their salary, house ’em all in hospitals… We can practice the kind of exploitation of Gulf countries, import labour for slave conditions and build up from that… As for our working class, well… universal income?
A 5% rise is an effective 5% cut in this economy.
After the last three years they are fully justified to strike.
Also remember that not all NHS staff got this pay rise (cut). Junior doctors were excluded.
Haven’t NHS staff also had a massive increase in their pension contributions as well ? So it’s a double hit.
No pay rise for years, classically over worked, underfunded, absolutely churned through people during COVID. Pay them what they deserve to be paid, and appreciate the fact that this job and these jobs save lives – Theyre not inconsequential they were, literally, defined as essential.
Fair enough, after all the clapping a pan slapping they got nothing but a slap to the face after all the hard work.
Hate how these things are reported.
Any pay increase below inflation is a pay decrease. It should say NHS employees preparing to go on strike after rejecting five per cent decrease.
Good luck to them! They deserve a real pat increase and significant improvements in their conditions.
Teachers are the same- looks like they’re rejecting their 5%.
College & Uni lecturers have been offered 2.5-3.5%
Underfunded as fuck and then Truss and her pals fuck the economy.
Lets see if the population claps for the NHS whilst they strike.
Go and get fair pay I say, I support the strike action.
I think we can all admit that Covid-19 should have been the wake-up call needed to recognise the sacrifices and hard work that NHS staff deal with day to day.
The whole “Clap for the NHS” campaign, might as well of been called “slap the NHS” for all the good it did.
The lack of support shown by this government for those on the front-line was nothing short of disgusting.
The will be getting our support from Unity community.
The public sector had pay freezes to pay for bankers fuck ups because we’re all in it together.
Bankers now get their outrageous bonuses so if we are all in it together….
After 12 years of running the country the people who our government employ are significantly worse off. The people who employ our government on the other hand…
I’m ready to tick strike when my ballot comes through the post.
We need more staff, and making the job actually worth the effort is the way to get more people into the profession. Patients and the general public deserved a better staffed NHS.
Fully support them and if you don’t, you can fuck off.
Good. It’s time to bring the whole system down until the Tories are forced from power.
My wife is a doctor. She’s often in tears as she heads out the door to work.
She’s looking to leave the profession. This can’t continue. It’s not sustainable.
My partner got about £100 from this backdated pay rise and In the following week received a letter saying the subscription she pays to even work as an OT has gone up.
You shouldn’t describe with malice what can be described with ignorance but it genuinely feels like they’re laughing in her face.
Reminder that the smear campaign will be this is be immediately bad for some people. An NHS that people can’t afford to work for would be far worse and cause innumerable deaths. This strike will save lives.
Good.
Pay them more.
Properly fund the NHS and stop gutting it, so you can morph it into a US healthcare style system, you evil gits.
Edit: I misspelt morph.
100% behind the NHS employees if they strike. These Tory disaster capitalists need to be brought to their knees now, before they cause even more havoc in our society. I’m awaiting hospital treatment but I’ll gladly wait longer if our public workers across all sectors decide to battle the Tory, self-serving, gits.
Solidarity forever. Get out there and demand what you deserve.
I for one will be clapping in support of their strikes.
I work for the NHS as a software developer. I’m being forced to leave my job of 8 years because they won’t let me continue to work from home, even though I’ve been working successfully from home for over two years now. On top of that, I have immunocompromised family members, which I told them, but that didn’t matter.
Funny thing is, my bosses were in favour of us all working from home, and would have given it to me, but the decision is made by someone in HR, by someone who it won’t affect. But it will massively affect my users and staff, all of whom rely heavily on my expertise. They’re devastated I’m going and can’t believe the NHS is prepared to lose me over WFH.
It’ll costs then maybe 3 times my salary, if not more, to replace me, as they don’t have anyone else in house with the knowledge I have, so they’re outsourcing support for my systems.
What a shambles. Didn’t really affect me. I got another job within a week of deciding to leave. Full WFH, more money. But I loved working for the NHS and wish I didn’t have to go. I’ve spent my whole career working for the NHS, and they’ve invested a lot of money to train me. Now they’re just pissing it all away over nothing. Not to mention it’ll probably cost another £60k on top of what they were paying me to run my systems.
Wasted money everywhere.
Now watch tha same thick as shit right wingers who were outside clapping during pandemic berate striking staff for not “getting on with it”. These people expect the best from our NHS whilst simultaneously voting to gut it. They should all be sent out in rafts on the channel in my opinion.
Good for them. They’ve been shafted for far too long. If, as the general public, we are unhappy with them striking, we should point the finger at the government that caused this and not them because our appointments get delayed.
Oh, and a special mention for the right wing press that would have us believe that it’s “nurses being greedy” or other similar garbage.
Let’s not forget that due to pension banding a changing, but not until the 1st October, bands 3, 5 and 8a are losing money on September’s pay check due to their back dated lump sum pushing them into a higher pension bracket. Their lump sum will be wiped out plus more taken from their normal wage so they will earn up to £250 less this month than their normal, pre-“rise” pay. Some trusts have set up payment plans for staff to “spread the cost” as they cannot afford this massive reduction in their wage this month. Many will experience no rise at all this year due to the cost of this pension loop hole issue.
I think everyone who is getting a raw deal should strike!
Finally, strike hard strike often, fuck the fucking tories. We need to fight to keep the NHS afloat. They are desperate ot kill it and sell it out.
Anyone who isn’t concerned by this should probably have a little think about whether they want to be treated by someone next time they’re in hospital who has done a 12 hour shift then gone straight into looking after their kids with no or minimal sleep to reduce childcare costs and is distracted by how they’re going to pay their bills this month.
Mistakes in the NHS can be life changing or fatal to patients and unless you’re planning to never get sick, injured, have a baby etc it is terrible for everyone to have healthcare workers under financial strain.
For god sake pay these people. Raise tax on higher earners to pay if necessary. I’m a higher earner, please pay these people.
They can find however many billions for people in the top tax bracket, cant find the money tree for the workers in the NHS.
I hate this tory government.
I work for the NHS and I totally back this strike. My feeling is the government **wants** to run the NHS into the ground to justify privatisation. It makes me sick. I’m on band 6 and I’m struggling. I’ve seen FY doctors working 12.5 hours a day in covid wards making less than 1600 per month in London, where deductions are over 1k from their earnings. It’s unsustainable, people are leaving, the NHS is crumbling, and nothing is being done.
I read about a pregnant woman in labour being turned away from a hospital because there weren’t enough midwives. The lack of staff puts even MORE pressure on people already pushed to their limits. It’s so sad and disgusting to see what this country is doing to it’s public sector workers. The amount of disrespect with the clap for the NHS, 1% pay rise, pay freeze, etc makes me sick.
Another thing which people might not know about is the prevalence of apprenticeship posts now.
My wife is doing an apprenticeship for a band 5 position, and in the first year, she got paid half minimum (£4.50 an hour) for a job that would be £10.40 otherwise. She’s now up to minimum wage and doing band 4/5 level work.
Yes, she doesn’t need to pay uni fees, but I find it crazy that part of the workforce we relied on during the pandemic was on less than £5 an hour. And with the number of apprentices in the hospital, I find it doubtful that all of them will be offered a job at the end of it.
We need to start properly funding training for doctors, nurses, and allied health professionals. The nation benefits massively from these people, they should be paid appropriately or we’re never going to fill the gap in recruitment and retention.
NHS doctors saved mine and my baby’s life with an emergency c-section, the level of service and care was amazing.
I have friends who are NHS doctors and I earn more than them! It’s crazy how many years they need to study and CONTINUE to studytake exams (out of their own pocket).
**Overworked, underpaid, understaffed.** Our beloved NHS is being robbed and bullied – what can we do to help them?
Is an online petition not good enough? How do we show we are united behindwith the NHS?
I work for the NHS and have done for over 10 years. We received a pay rise this month, and no joke, I’m actually worse off now.
My pay rise was 2% on my salary which triggered my pension contribution rising from 9.3% to 12.5%. I received £540 in back pay dated to April, but then had to pay £870 in pension arrears leaving me around £200 worse off this month compared to last.
Going forward, my monthly take home has gone down by around £50. Many of my colleagues are in the same boat. With the cost of living rising, the whole thing is just morale sapping.
“YoU GrEEdy nURsEs Are DriVinG InFlaTion” some idiot somewhere
Give NHS employees whatever the fuck they ask for. They are ESSENTIAL to society.
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It’s fine, let’s import 50,000 from Indonesia and the Philippines… who’ll accept 20 percent reduction to their salary, house ’em all in hospitals… We can practice the kind of exploitation of Gulf countries, import labour for slave conditions and build up from that… As for our working class, well… universal income?
A 5% rise is an effective 5% cut in this economy.
After the last three years they are fully justified to strike.
Also remember that not all NHS staff got this pay rise (cut). Junior doctors were excluded.
Haven’t NHS staff also had a massive increase in their pension contributions as well ? So it’s a double hit.
No pay rise for years, classically over worked, underfunded, absolutely churned through people during COVID. Pay them what they deserve to be paid, and appreciate the fact that this job and these jobs save lives – Theyre not inconsequential they were, literally, defined as essential.
Fair enough, after all the clapping a pan slapping they got nothing but a slap to the face after all the hard work.
Hate how these things are reported.
Any pay increase below inflation is a pay decrease. It should say NHS employees preparing to go on strike after rejecting five per cent decrease.
Good luck to them! They deserve a real pat increase and significant improvements in their conditions.
Teachers are the same- looks like they’re rejecting their 5%.
College & Uni lecturers have been offered 2.5-3.5%
Underfunded as fuck and then Truss and her pals fuck the economy.
Lets see if the population claps for the NHS whilst they strike.
Go and get fair pay I say, I support the strike action.
I think we can all admit that Covid-19 should have been the wake-up call needed to recognise the sacrifices and hard work that NHS staff deal with day to day.
The whole “Clap for the NHS” campaign, might as well of been called “slap the NHS” for all the good it did.
The lack of support shown by this government for those on the front-line was nothing short of disgusting.
The will be getting our support from Unity community.
The public sector had pay freezes to pay for bankers fuck ups because we’re all in it together.
Bankers now get their outrageous bonuses so if we are all in it together….
After 12 years of running the country the people who our government employ are significantly worse off. The people who employ our government on the other hand…
I’m ready to tick strike when my ballot comes through the post.
We need more staff, and making the job actually worth the effort is the way to get more people into the profession. Patients and the general public deserved a better staffed NHS.
Fully support them and if you don’t, you can fuck off.
Good. It’s time to bring the whole system down until the Tories are forced from power.
My wife is a doctor. She’s often in tears as she heads out the door to work.
She’s looking to leave the profession. This can’t continue. It’s not sustainable.
My partner got about £100 from this backdated pay rise and In the following week received a letter saying the subscription she pays to even work as an OT has gone up.
You shouldn’t describe with malice what can be described with ignorance but it genuinely feels like they’re laughing in her face.
Reminder that the smear campaign will be this is be immediately bad for some people. An NHS that people can’t afford to work for would be far worse and cause innumerable deaths. This strike will save lives.
Good.
Pay them more.
Properly fund the NHS and stop gutting it, so you can morph it into a US healthcare style system, you evil gits.
Edit: I misspelt morph.
100% behind the NHS employees if they strike. These Tory disaster capitalists need to be brought to their knees now, before they cause even more havoc in our society. I’m awaiting hospital treatment but I’ll gladly wait longer if our public workers across all sectors decide to battle the Tory, self-serving, gits.
Solidarity forever. Get out there and demand what you deserve.
I for one will be clapping in support of their strikes.
I work for the NHS as a software developer. I’m being forced to leave my job of 8 years because they won’t let me continue to work from home, even though I’ve been working successfully from home for over two years now. On top of that, I have immunocompromised family members, which I told them, but that didn’t matter.
Funny thing is, my bosses were in favour of us all working from home, and would have given it to me, but the decision is made by someone in HR, by someone who it won’t affect. But it will massively affect my users and staff, all of whom rely heavily on my expertise. They’re devastated I’m going and can’t believe the NHS is prepared to lose me over WFH.
It’ll costs then maybe 3 times my salary, if not more, to replace me, as they don’t have anyone else in house with the knowledge I have, so they’re outsourcing support for my systems.
What a shambles. Didn’t really affect me. I got another job within a week of deciding to leave. Full WFH, more money. But I loved working for the NHS and wish I didn’t have to go. I’ve spent my whole career working for the NHS, and they’ve invested a lot of money to train me. Now they’re just pissing it all away over nothing. Not to mention it’ll probably cost another £60k on top of what they were paying me to run my systems.
Wasted money everywhere.
Now watch tha same thick as shit right wingers who were outside clapping during pandemic berate striking staff for not “getting on with it”. These people expect the best from our NHS whilst simultaneously voting to gut it. They should all be sent out in rafts on the channel in my opinion.
Good for them. They’ve been shafted for far too long. If, as the general public, we are unhappy with them striking, we should point the finger at the government that caused this and not them because our appointments get delayed.
Oh, and a special mention for the right wing press that would have us believe that it’s “nurses being greedy” or other similar garbage.
Let’s not forget that due to pension banding a changing, but not until the 1st October, bands 3, 5 and 8a are losing money on September’s pay check due to their back dated lump sum pushing them into a higher pension bracket. Their lump sum will be wiped out plus more taken from their normal wage so they will earn up to £250 less this month than their normal, pre-“rise” pay. Some trusts have set up payment plans for staff to “spread the cost” as they cannot afford this massive reduction in their wage this month. Many will experience no rise at all this year due to the cost of this pension loop hole issue.
[HSJ article on the pay cut for 3s, 5s and 8as. ](https://www.hsj.co.uk/daily-insight/daily-insight-less-pay-more-pain/7033133.article)
I think everyone who is getting a raw deal should strike!
Finally, strike hard strike often, fuck the fucking tories. We need to fight to keep the NHS afloat. They are desperate ot kill it and sell it out.
Anyone who isn’t concerned by this should probably have a little think about whether they want to be treated by someone next time they’re in hospital who has done a 12 hour shift then gone straight into looking after their kids with no or minimal sleep to reduce childcare costs and is distracted by how they’re going to pay their bills this month.
Mistakes in the NHS can be life changing or fatal to patients and unless you’re planning to never get sick, injured, have a baby etc it is terrible for everyone to have healthcare workers under financial strain.
For god sake pay these people. Raise tax on higher earners to pay if necessary. I’m a higher earner, please pay these people.
They can find however many billions for people in the top tax bracket, cant find the money tree for the workers in the NHS.
I hate this tory government.
I work for the NHS and I totally back this strike. My feeling is the government **wants** to run the NHS into the ground to justify privatisation. It makes me sick. I’m on band 6 and I’m struggling. I’ve seen FY doctors working 12.5 hours a day in covid wards making less than 1600 per month in London, where deductions are over 1k from their earnings. It’s unsustainable, people are leaving, the NHS is crumbling, and nothing is being done.
I read about a pregnant woman in labour being turned away from a hospital because there weren’t enough midwives. The lack of staff puts even MORE pressure on people already pushed to their limits. It’s so sad and disgusting to see what this country is doing to it’s public sector workers. The amount of disrespect with the clap for the NHS, 1% pay rise, pay freeze, etc makes me sick.
Another thing which people might not know about is the prevalence of apprenticeship posts now.
My wife is doing an apprenticeship for a band 5 position, and in the first year, she got paid half minimum (£4.50 an hour) for a job that would be £10.40 otherwise. She’s now up to minimum wage and doing band 4/5 level work.
Yes, she doesn’t need to pay uni fees, but I find it crazy that part of the workforce we relied on during the pandemic was on less than £5 an hour. And with the number of apprentices in the hospital, I find it doubtful that all of them will be offered a job at the end of it.
We need to start properly funding training for doctors, nurses, and allied health professionals. The nation benefits massively from these people, they should be paid appropriately or we’re never going to fill the gap in recruitment and retention.
NHS doctors saved mine and my baby’s life with an emergency c-section, the level of service and care was amazing.
I have friends who are NHS doctors and I earn more than them! It’s crazy how many years they need to study and CONTINUE to studytake exams (out of their own pocket).
**Overworked, underpaid, understaffed.** Our beloved NHS is being robbed and bullied – what can we do to help them?
Is an online petition not good enough? How do we show we are united behindwith the NHS?
I work for the NHS and have done for over 10 years. We received a pay rise this month, and no joke, I’m actually worse off now.
My pay rise was 2% on my salary which triggered my pension contribution rising from 9.3% to 12.5%. I received £540 in back pay dated to April, but then had to pay £870 in pension arrears leaving me around £200 worse off this month compared to last.
Going forward, my monthly take home has gone down by around £50. Many of my colleagues are in the same boat. With the cost of living rising, the whole thing is just morale sapping.
“YoU GrEEdy nURsEs Are DriVinG InFlaTion” some idiot somewhere
Give NHS employees whatever the fuck they ask for. They are ESSENTIAL to society.